scholarly journals Marina Oswald & Kathleen Wade: Wives Involved in a Political Ambition

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
أ.م .د. رشا عبد المنعم عزيز
Keyword(s):  
Political Ambition ◽  
Lake Of The Woods

“I’m no psychiatrist, but if you ask me, politicians in general are pretty insecure people” (O’Brien, 1994, p. 97). This quotation describes politicians as insecure people, and the word “insecure” has more than one implication. It may mean that politicians are insecure to themselves or to people around them. It can also mean that politicians’ actions are not trustworthy. This description indicates that one must fear or be aware of politicians in general. A politician’s wife may need also to have this caution. According to such description, does a politician’s wife feel happy or secure with her husband? This paper will focus on the life of two wives. The first one is Marina Oswald in Don Delillo’s novel Libra (1988), and Kathleen Wade in Tim O’Brien’s novel In the Lake of the Woods (1994).The main blame would be on husbands; however, this paper will explain the role of the wives as well. The absence of real communication, besides the extreme political expectations of the two husbands, leads to ending the two marriages unsuccessfully.

scholarly journals “Korea National Prayer Breakfast” and Protestant Leaders’ Prophetic Consciousness during the Period of Military Dictatorship (1962–1987)

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Yohan Yoo ◽  
Minah Kim
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Military

This paper illuminates the prophetic consciousness of Korean Protestant leaders by examining the “Korea National Prayer Breakfast” (Gukgajochangidohoe, 국가조찬기도회) that they hosted, particularly during the military regimes. In explaining the motivation for and intention of this special religious event in the political arena, most scholars have emphasized the Protestant leaders’ political ambition and their agendas to get the government support and expand their power in Korean society. However, we should take heed of the leaders’ religious aspirations to make the country righteous in God’s sight. They attempted to have a good influence on the inner circle of the military dictatorship, which some Christians regarded as an evil force. Though they preached to and prayed for the military regimes, their sermons were often unpleasant and challenging to the presidents and their associates. The Protestant leaders wanted to play the role of John the Baptist rebuking Herod Antipas rather than the compliant chief priests and scribes serving Herod the Great.

A Theory of Political Ambition: Career Choices and the Role of Structural Incentives

1972 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon S. Black
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Community Size ◽  
Political Careers

Office-holders periodically face the problem of choosing among a set of career alternatives, and these alternatives customarily include the choice of dropping out of political life, or seeking reelection, or of choosing to seek higher office. This paper assumes that officeholders behave according to a rational calculus in making such choices, and that the main elements involved in the choice process include the probabilities and values attached by the candidate to his alternatives, and the investments required to obtain these alternatives. Political ambition, or the desire to seek higher office, is shown to develop as a product of the investments that politicians make in their political careers, and the investments are shown to be associated with the structural characteristics of community size and electoral competitiveness. The subjects of the research are 435 city councilmen from 89 cities of the San Francisco Bay Region, and the data include information derived from interviews with the councilmen and aggregate election data collected on each city.

Applied Geospatial Perspectives on the Rock Art of the Lake of the Woods Region of Ontario, Canada

2013 ◽  
pp. 1328-1344
Author(s):  
John W. Norder ◽  
Jon W. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Point Pattern Analysis ◽  
Point Pattern ◽  
Least Cost Path ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Lake Of The Woods ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Rock Formations

This study examines the role of rock art in the construction of Woodland Period (300 BC to AD 1700) hunter-gatherer landscapes in the Lake of the Woods region of northwestern Ontario. The authors examine the distribution of documented pictograph sites relative to the locations of rock formations where the geologic conditions would have favored the placement of pictographic rock art but are absent. Point pattern analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and least cost path analysis were used to analyze the findings. The authors suggest that pictograph sites were placed at points on the landscape along water routes to facilitate information exchange among highly mobile hunter-gatherers.

Applied Geospatial Perspectives on the Rock Art of the Lake of the Woods Region of Ontario, Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Norder ◽  
Jon W. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Point Pattern Analysis ◽  
Point Pattern ◽  
Least Cost Path ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Lake Of The Woods ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Rock Formations

This study examines the role of rock art in the construction of Woodland Period (300 BC to AD 1700) hunter-gatherer landscapes in the Lake of the Woods region of northwestern Ontario. The authors examine the distribution of documented pictograph sites relative to the locations of rock formations where the geologic conditions would have favored the placement of pictographic rock art but are absent. Point pattern analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and least cost path analysis were used to analyze the findings. The authors suggest that pictograph sites were placed at points on the landscape along water routes to facilitate information exchange among highly mobile hunter-gatherers.

Applied Geospatial Perspectives on the Rock Art of the Lake of the Woods Region of Ontario, Canada

2012 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
John W. Norder ◽  
Jon W. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Point Pattern Analysis ◽  
Point Pattern ◽  
Least Cost Path ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Lake Of The Woods ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Rock Formations

This study examines the role of rock art in the construction of Woodland Period (300 BC to AD 1700) hunter-gatherer landscapes in the Lake of the Woods region of northwestern Ontario. The authors examine the distribution of documented pictograph sites relative to the locations of rock formations where the geologic conditions would have favored the placement of pictographic rock art but are absent. Point pattern analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and least cost path analysis were used to analyze the findings. The authors suggest that pictograph sites were placed at points on the landscape along water routes to facilitate information exchange among highly mobile hunter-gatherers.

scholarly journals Accountability, Framing Effects, and Risk-Seeking by Elected Representatives: An Experimental Study with American Local Politicians

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Lior Sheffer ◽  
Peter John Loewen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Preferences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Gain Loss ◽  
Elected Representatives

Risk management underlies almost every aspect of elite politics. However, due to the difficulty of administering assessment tasks to elites, direct evidence on the risk preferences of elected politicians scarcely exists. As a result, we do not know how consistent are politicians’ risk preferences, and under what conditions they can be changed. In this paper, we conduct a survey experiment with 440 incumbent local politicians from across the United States. Using a modified version of the Asian Disease framing experiment, we show that gain/loss frames alter the stated risk preferences of elected officials. We further show that priming democratic accountability increases the tendency to engage in risky behavior, but that this shift in preference only occurs in those politicians who are interested in seeking reelection. These results inform several political science theories that assume stable risk preferences by political elites, or that make no risk assumptions whatsoever. They also provide insights into the role of political ambition and accountability in structuring the behavior of political elites.

scholarly journals Aspirant candidate behaviour and progressive political ambition

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205316801769144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Allen ◽  
David Cutts
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Effect ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Elite Recruitment

In this paper we take account of the role of aspirant candidate behaviour in progressive political ambition, specifically how some individuals signal their political ambition to political actors by approaching them to discuss running for office. We examine how the effect of this behaviour compares to the more prominently studied effect of elite recruitment. We conclude that signalling behaviour by an aspirant candidate has a substantial effect, particularly with regard to actually acting on initial considerations of whether to stand, and that elite recruitment makes a difference but only in conjunction with the aspirant candidate themselves signalling their ambition to political actors.

scholarly journals The Non-traditional Security Threat of COVID-19 in South Asia: An Analysis of the Indian and Chinese Leverage in Health Diplomacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Swagata Saha ◽  
Sukalpa Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
Significant Point

South Asia has emerged as a major challenge in dealing with COVID-19 virus in terms of its demographics, economy, social values, political ambition and geographical location. The pandemic viewed through the prism of non-traditional security (NTS) threat presents new challenges and demands reworking of conventional governance mechanisms. India is the South Asian hegemon, and China is the single largest immediate neighbour with expansionist ambition in the region. Two most populous countries—one has been the epicentre of the virus, while the other is one of the most widely affected. Their public health and governance trajectory during the pandemic and their health diplomacy in the region have overtures for security architecture of South Asia in post-COVID-19 world. A lone statist approach and legal–institutional officialdom fail to appreciate the instrumentalities of an unconventional security threat like COVID-19. This calls for a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to deal with NTS threat, in general, and epidemiological disease, in particular. This by no means indicating a retreat of the state rather a proactive role in articulating interests of more inclusive categories and, in doing so, the state consolidates its role of governance and becomes a significant point of integration.

scholarly journals The Discursive Governance of Forced-Migration Management: The Turkish Shift from Reticence to Activism in Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umut Korkut
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Turkish Case ◽  
Migration Regimes

Abstract This article shows how similar humanitarian narratives of states can travel across different geographies in response to refugee crises. Empirically, it follows Turkey's position vis-à-vis the Syrian and Rohingya refugee crises. Considering Turkey's migration management practices, humanitarian activism narrative, and its political ambition to foster domestic and international audiences for this narrative, this article elaborates on how Turkey has become a humanitarian actor responding both to Syrian and the Rohingya crises. In both cases, the Turkish political discourses have been very resonant of each other, despite Syria and Myanmar being in different geographies and proximities to Turkey. The article also shows how Turkish politicians and the civil servants aspired to enhance visibility and credibility of Turkey as a humanitarian actor. Delineating Turkey's humanitarian narrative shows the role of political agency in forging sympathetic domestic and international audiences. Overall, the Turkish case presents how states operate migration regimes at the cusp of discourses and institutions affecting their forced migration management and humanitarian engagements.

The Politicization of Science and the Use and Abuse of Technology

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
Gabriel R. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Political Ambition ◽  
Functional Roles ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Scientific Autonomy ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Self Rule

This paper examines the dialectical role of science in its promotion of public policy and the manner in which scientific autonomy has been challenged to further political ambition. Various episodes in the ever expanding technological reach of the marriage of science and politics is historically recounted to demonstrate the threat to scientific self-rule and to individual scientists who have been relegated to instrumentally functional roles. It is argued that the emergent class status of scientists has been subverted by the triumvirate of technology, industry and religion. Moreover, science has met its greatest challenge from those entities which understand how the use of technology and scientific discovery translate into regulatory measures.

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